Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National banks are now permitted by law to have branches within the corporate limits of their cities, and branches abroad, but are not allowed to have branches out-side of their cities in the U. S. Some state laws, notably California's, permit state-wide branch-banking. But no law, state or Federal, allows for the formation of great banks with branches in more than one state, such as the great banks of Canada and England...
...conclusion permit me to say that Frederick Brown and his charming wife, who is a native American, are persons of culture, have traveled extensively, and despite great wealth are very unassuming. As philanthropists they have a national reputation...
Alcohol. "The greatest single source of liquor supply today is the alcohol diverted illegally from concerns bearing the stamp of respectability in the form of a government permit. . . . To trace leaks has become well-nigh impossible. The Government's policy has been like pouring BB shot on the floor with one hand and trying to pick it up with the other." Commercial alcohol production in 1918: 50,000,000 gals.; in 1928: 90,000,000 gals. Smuggling: "The leak second in importance is border smuggling. Illicit importation seeks the low moral levels of our border service. . . . Detroit...
Considering the punch which Aristide Briand has placed aforetime into French denials of German requests for evacuation this was conciliation indeed. "Permit me to suggest," replied Dr. Stresemann smilingly, "that your troops could be spared the inhuman experience of a winter evacuation by leaving...
...City of Baltimore announced sitters would need a $1 permit, poles would have to be approved by city engineers...